Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives by David Eagleman
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Book Reviews of Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives
Book Review: The Hitchhikers Guide to the Afterlives
Summary: 5 Stars
Each chapter is a self-contained fantasy of a version of the afterlife. Many of the tales play with the idea of scale (In "Giantess", God is so big the whole Milky Way is like a single cell; in "Microbe" God is merely the size of bacteria). In others, our lives are research for our extraterrestrial creators who are asking themselves the same existential questions we ask ourselves. Still in others, our typical expectations of heaven are fulfilled only find out how, when lived out, our expectations are ironically hellish. Eagleman's creative tales are reminiscent of classics such as The Twilight Zone, Outer Limits, and Alfred Hitchcock Presents. Sum is an enjoyable read, and I highly recommend it.Book Review: You Will Never Read Anything So Original - Guaranteed!
Summary: 5 Stars
Sum is a collection of 42 1-3 page 'thoughts' about either what is really going on in the afterlife or what this life we're in is all about. It's not about the author's experiences or beliefs. It's just ideas, like the kind you might have in a silly moment. Here, there are 42 of them, each one so unique and bizarre, often hilarious, frequently clever, and extremely entertaining. If you love original thought, you'll catch yourself gleefully chuckling throughout this book. But beware: despite its brevity, I needed an hour or more between each few pages just to absorb the implications of his ideas. Enjoy! (PS: This book became my #1 gift for everyone I know for about a year.)Book Review: Wish I'd Written This
Summary: 5 Stars
What happens after we die? The author doesn't pretend to know, but he offers up a smorgasbord of intriguing possibilities. Actually, it's not about the afterlife, really, it's about the before-life. What is life really all about? And how does God fit in? And where are we headed?
Thought provoking vignettes, tiny parables, that raise as many questions as answers. Life as divined by a neuroscientist, definitely not a theologian. Author Eagleman writes with a light touch, gentle humor, and lucid style. Blessedly he doesn't take himself too seriously.
I enjoyed this book immensely and I recommend it highly. Reviewed by Louis N. Gruber.
Book Review: pondering what comes next
Summary: 5 Stars
Much of my own psychic work has been around the meaning and nature of the afterlife. Our extensive afterlife communications[...]primed me for this outstanding work of speculation.
In forty different ways, Eagleman takes snippets from the infinite matrix of possibility in terms of time, energy, meaning, relationships, and outcomes, weaving them into vignettes of what the afterlife might be or mean.
This is a book to read in forty sittings, separated by some deep pondering, because each possibility will leave you with as many questions as answers.
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Book Review: Brain Candy
Summary: 5 Stars
There are MORE than forty tales in this delightful little book. What an imagination Dr. Eagleman has and the science to stretch it out. These tales are more like mental exercises than stories and thus rather exhausting as the one-star reviewers seem to feel. I'd put the little book down with a sigh, then pick it up again, as if it were brain candy. Some of these afterlives sound delightful. Others make me want to take my vitamins and walk a mile every day. Maybe two miles.
I look forward to his next book. Hurry up, Doc, time's a'wasting!